0530 GMT: Six days to go before the US, European powers, China, and Russia are supposed to sit down with a high-level Iranian delegation to discuss Tehran's nuclear programme, but no one seems to know where and even if the talks will take place.
The State Department insists that the proceedings will open as scheduled on 13 April but have no idea where its representatives are heading. The Europeans are offering no comment. And I am not even sure that many in the Iranian regime know what is happening.
The Islamic Republic has pulled back from its apparent agreement to Istanbul as the venue, angering the Turkish Government, and appears to be promoting Baghdad as the host. That idea is a non-starter for the US and the Europeans, given their perception that Iraqi leaders are too close to Tehran to provide neutrality and that, in any case, the Iranians are stalling.
Press TV is still proclaiming, "Iran, P5+1 Urged to Make Use of N-talks" but State news agency IRNA decides to walk away this morning: its lead story is on President Ahmadinejad opening a complex of 17,500 housing units in Khorasan
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